home of whimsy

Those are actually not spiky feathers at all! They sure do look like it, though, and that's likely the point- if I were a raptor looking down upon a pincushion, I would think twice about grabbing it with my bare feet.

However, it's a ruse! Just a marking on a feather

forget the discussions around AC and humidity factor and brick houses holding heat. the point is that this ISN'T NORMAL for the UK's climate. we are supposed to be a temperate climate!!!

oh summers where you are have always been 30-35°C? congrats, sounds like that's the climate your area is SUPPOSED to have! the UK is not!!! spring temperatures usually range from 7-16°C. the normal range of summer temperatures in the UK are supposed to be peaks of 18-20°C. it is not even summer yet, and it is 30°C.

temperatures that were once extreme outliers are now becoming commonplace and our infrastructure is not equipped to deal with this. our houses, town layouts, our roads. much of our public transport infrastructure becomes unusable at these temperatures because the rail tracks are not stressed to withstand temperatures this high.

and our ecology is not equipped to deal with it either. our riverbeds are drying up. both droughts and flash flooding events are beginning increasingly common. wildlife is struggling. the UK government commissioned and then tried to bury a report that stated by 2030 we are likely to see mass crop failures.

- sneezed wrong

- turned your neck a little too fast

- slept weird

- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual

- breathed

- failed to breathe properly

- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time

- looked too hard at something too far away